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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ahmed Hilooz (1949-) is a Palestinian visual artist , born in Qalqilya , Palestine. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Department of Sculpture, in 1980. He presented many individual and group exhibitions, and worked in various regions as a Palestinian refugee.
He moved to the United Arab Emirates in 1980, where he held a position in the Educational Media Department at the Ministry of Education . He participated in the establishment of the Hurufiyya Group in the Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services and contributed to the establishment of the Ban Alam Group in 1994. He was also a member of the General Union of Jordanian Visual Artists. He participated in many Palestinian, Arab and international union exhibitions. His artistic styles and techniques varied between sculpture and various media.
His works were characterized by an expressive nature that focused on the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian person, where women occupied an important place in that experience, expressing multiple meanings such as love, motherhood, challenge, sadness, and land. Later, his works became more inclined to reduce the subject, with the aim of reaching the expressive form with the least possible expressive details, avoiding falling into the fine details. His figurative paintings were characterized by spontaneity and automaticity, as he drew the features of the Palestinian nature that he lived in his childhood and remained haunted in his conscience.
His solo exhibitions
He contributed to presenting many exhibitions in various countries, including:
Exhibition at Hilton Hotel, Kuwait 1977.
Dubai International Art Festival Exhibition 1994.
Galleria Exhibition, Sharjah 2004.
Four Walls Gallery Exhibition, Jordan 2009.
Palm Shadow Festival Exhibition, University of Sharjah 2017.
His group exhibitions
Hilooz participated in many group exhibitions, including:
International Contemporary Art Exhibition, India 1982.
Dhaka International Biennale, Bangladesh 1995.
Traveling exhibition about activist Rachel Corrie, USA 2008.
The First Dubai International Fine Arts Forum, Emirates Towers 2013.
Exhibition of the Faculty of Arts in Berlin 2018.
Emirates Fine Arts Society Annual General Exhibition, Sharjah Art Museum 2021.
Achievements and Awards
His awards
Hilooz has won many awards, including:
Second place in the Iraqi Youth Exhibition 1980.
Bronze Medal, General Order of Polish Artists, Poland 1984.
Badge Pavilion Design Award, International Tourism Fair, West Germany 1986.
Jury Award at the Dubai International Festival 1994.
First Prize in Sculpture, 13th Emirates Arts Society Exhibition 1994.
Third Prize, Sharjah International Biennial 1993.
Iraqi Creative Association Award for Fine Arts, Creative Medal 2016.
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